Stagnant freelance rates have pushed some established journalists toward better-paying communication roles. Meanwhile, a new ...

Next week, I’ll be chairing a session at the Science Online 2010 conference called Rebooting science journalism in the age of the web. I’ll be shooting the breeze with Carl Zimmer, John Timmer ...

I’ve just spoken at the opening plenary of the second day of the World Conference of Science Journalists at Doha, Qatar. It’s a panel called “Am I a science journalist?”with myself, my ...

Credit: Pew Research Center. Last year was a tough one for science journalism. National Geographic laid off all of its staff reporters, and Wired laid off 20 people.And the most recent blow came in ...

Last August, science journalists lost one of their most precious resources when the Knight Science Journalism program shut down its Tracker blog, which had provided sharp, comprehensive coverage of ...

Science journalism is a way of thinking, a journalistic practice rooted in evidence: how it is gathered, how it is verified, how it bumps up against communities’ realities. Science journalism means ...

But needlessly so? Perhaps. Tom Rosenstiel, director of the Project for Excellence in Journalism and vice chairman of the Committee of Concerned Journalists, told the audience that there is “a golden ...

Ask any working science journalist about the state of the discipline, and they’ll tell you the mood is grim. The industry-wide layoffs of the past year, numbering more than 20,000 media workers, have ...

Science journalism is in decline; science blogging is growing fast. But can the one replace the other, asks Geoff Brumfiel. John Timmer's slide into journalism was so gradual even he can't put his ...

And science journalists bear a heavy burden when they are subjected to a barrage of insults and hate simply for doing their job. This article was originally published on Undark.

Science writer Sabrina Imbler will be visiting the University of Wisconsin to share their expertise with Madison’s next generation of scientists and communicators. They will be at UW from March 29-31 ...